Java: A new Direct Persistence Layer adds a built-in Plain Old Java Object (POJO)-based
persistent object model, which provides support for complex object models without
compromises in performance. For an introduction to the Direct Persistence Layer
API, see Getting Started with Data Storage. [#15936]

Add the DB_ENV->set_intermediate_dir_mode method to support the
creation of intermediate directories needed during recovery. [#15097]

The DB_ENV->failchk method can now abort transactions for threads,
which have failed while blocked on a concurrency lock. This
significantly decreases the need for database environment recovery after
thread of control failure. [#15626]

Replication Manager clients now can be configured to monitor the
connection to the master using heartbeat messages, in order to promptly
discover connection failures. [#15714]

The logging system may now be configured to pre-zero log files when
they are created, improving performance on some systems. [#15758]

Database Environment Changes:

Restructure aborted page allocation handling on systems without an
ftruncate system call. This enables the Berkeley DB High Availability
product on systems, which do not support ftruncate. [#15602]

Fix a bug where closing a database handle after aborting a
transaction which included a failed open of that handle could result in
application failure. [#15650]

Fix a bug leading to a panic of "unpinned page returned" if a cursor
was used for a delete multiple times and deadlocked during one of the
deletes. [#15944]

Optionally signal processes still running in the environment before running
recovery. [#15984]

Concurrent Data Store Changes:

None.

General Access Method Changes:

Fix a bug where closing a database handle after aborting a
transaction which included a failed open of that database handle could
result in application failure. [#15650]

Fix a bug that could cause panic in a database environment
configured with POSIX-style thread locking, if a database open failed.
[#15662]

Fix bug in the DB->compact method which could cause a panic if a
thread was about to release a page while another thread was truncating
the database file. [#15671]

Fix an obscure case of interaction between a cursor scan and delete that was prematurely
returning DB_NOTFOUND. [#15785]

Fix a bug in the DB->compact method where if read-uncommitted was
configured, a reader reading uncommitted data my see an inconsistent
entry between when the compact method detects an error and when it
aborts the enclosing transaction. [#15856]

Fix a bug in the DB->compact method where a thread of control
mail fail if two threads are compacting the same section of a Recno
database. [#15856]

Fix a bug in DB->compact method, avoid an assertion failure when zero pages
can be freed. [#15965]

Fix a bug return a non-zero error when DB->truncate is called with open cursors.
[#15973]

Fix a bug add HANDLE_DEAD checking for DB cursors. [#15990]

Fix a bug to now generate errors when DB_SEQUENCE->stat is called without
first opening the sequence. [#15995]

Fix a bug to no longer dereference a pointer into a hash structure, when hash functionality
is disabled. [#16095]

Btree Access Method Changes:

None.

Hash Access Method Changes:

Fix a bug where a database store into a Hash database could
self-deadlock in a database environment configured for the Berkeley DB
Concurrent Data Store product, and with a free-threaded DB_ENV or DB
handle. [#15718]

Queue Access Method Changes:

Fix a bug that could cause a put or delete of a queue element to
return a DB_NOTGRANTED error, if blocked. [#15933]

Recno Access Method Changes:

Expose db_env_set_func_malloc, db_env_set_func_realloc, and
db_env_set_func_free through the Windows API for the DB dll. [#16045]

C-specific API Changes:

None.

Java-specific API Changes:

Fix a bug where enabling MVCC on a database through the Java API was
ignored. [#15644]

Fix a bug where Java SecondaryConfig was not setting SecondaryMultiKeyCreator from
the underlying db handle [OTN FORUM}

Fix a bug so that getStartupComplete will now return a boolean instead of an int.
[#16067]

Fix a bug in the Java API, where Berkeley DB would hang on exit when using replication. [#16142]

Direct Persistence Layer (DPL), Bindings and Collections API:

A new Direct Persistence Layer adds a built-in Plain Old Java Object (POJO)-based
persistent object model, which provides support for complex object models without
compromises in performance. For an introduction to the Direct Persistence Layer
API, see Getting Started with Data Storage. [#15936]

Fixed a bug in the remove method of the Iterator instances returned by the
StoredCollection.iterator method in the collections package. This bug caused ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
in some cases when calling next, previous, hasNext or hasPrevious after calling
remove. (Note that this issue does not apply to StoredIterator instances returned
by the StoredCollection.storedIterator method.) This bug was reported in this forum
thread:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=2187896
[#15858]

Fixed a bug in the remove method of the StoredIterator instances returned by StoredCollection.storedIterator
method in the collections package. If the sequence of methods next-remove-previous
was called, previous would sometimes return the removed record. If the sequence
of methods previous-remove-next was called, next would sometimes return the removed
record. (Note that this issue does not apply to Iterator instances returned by the
StoredCollection.iterator method.) [#15909]

Added StoredContainer.areKeyRangesAllowed method. Key ranges and the methods
in SortedMap and SortedSet such as subMap and subSet are now explicitly disallowed
for RECNO and QUEUE databases -- they are only supported for BTREE databases.
Before, using key ranges in a RECNO or QUEUE database did not work, but was not
explicitly prohibited in the Collections API. [#15936]

Tcl-specific API Changes:

The Berkeley DB Tcl API does not attempt to avoid evaluating input
as Tcl commands. For this reason, it may be dangerous to pass unreviewed
user input through the Berkeley DB Tcl API, as the input may
subsequently be evaluated as a Tcl command. To minimize the
effectiveness of a Tcl injection attack, the Berkeley DB Tcl API in the
4.7 release routine resets process' effective user and group IDs to the
real user and group IDs. [#15597]

RPC-specific Client/Server Changes:

None.

Replication Changes:

Fix a bug where a master failure resulted in multiple attempts to
perform a "fast election"; subsequent elections, when necessary, now use
the normal nsites value. [#15099]

Replication performance enhancements to speed up failover. [#15490]

Fix a bug where replication could self-block in a database environment
configured for in-memory logging. [#15503]

Fix a bug where replication would attempt to read log file version
numbers in a database configured for in-memory logging. [#15503]

Fix a bug where log files were not removed during client
initialization in a database configured for in-memory logging. [#15503]

The 4.7 release no longer supports live replication upgrade from the
4.2 or 4.3 releases, only from the 4.4 and later releases. [#15602]

Fix a bug where replication could re-request missing records on
every arriving record. [#15629]

Change the DB_ENV->rep_set_request method to use time, not the
number of messages, when re-requesting missed messages on a replication
client. [#15629]

Fix a minor memory leak on the master when updating a client during
internal initialization. [#15634]

Fix a bug where a client error when syncing with a new replication
group master could result in an inability to ever re-join the group. [#15648]

Change dbenv->rep_set_request to use time-based values instead of counters. [#15682]

Fix a bug where a LOCK_NOTGRANTED error could be returned from the
DB_ENV->rep_process_message method, instead of being handled
internally by replication. [#15685]

Fix a bug where the Replication Manager would reject a fresh
connection from a remote site that had crashed and restarted, displaying
the message: "redundant incoming connection will be ignored". [#15731]

The Replication Manager now supports dynamic negotiation of the best
available wire protocol version, on a per-connection basis. [#15783]

Fix a bug, which could lead to slow performance of internal
initialization under the Replication Manager, as evidenced by "queue limit
exceeded" messages in verbose replication diagnostic output. [#15788]

Fix a bug where replication control message were not portable between
replication clients with different endian architectures. [#15793]

Add a configuration option to turn off Replication Manager's special
handling of elections in 2-site groups. [#15873]

Fix a bug making it impossible to call replicationManagerAddRemoteSite
in the Java API after having called replicationManagerStart. [#15875]

Fix a bug where the DB_EVENT_REP_STARTUPDONE event could be
triggered too early. [#15887]

Fix a bug where the rcvd_ts timestamp is reset when the user just changes the threshold.
[#15895]

Fix a bug where the master in a 2-site replication group might wait
for client acknowledgement, even when there was no client connected.
[#15927]

Fix a bug, clean up and restart internal init if master log is gone.
[#16006]

Fix a bug, ignore page messages that are from an old internal init.
[#16075] [#16059]

Fix a bug where checkpoint records do not indicate a database was a named in-memory
database. [#16076]

Fix a bug with in-memory replication, where we returned with the log region mutex
held in an error path, leading to self-deadlock. [#16088]

Fix a bug which causes the DB_REP_CHECKPOINT_DELAY setting in rep_set_timeout()
to be interpreted in seconds, rather than microseconds. [#16153]

XA Resource Manager Changes:

Fix a bug where the DB_ENV->failchk method and replication in
general could fail in database environments configured for XA. [#15654]

Locking Subsystem Changes:

Fix a bug causing a lock or transaction timeout to not be set
properly after the first timeout triggers on a particular lock id.
[#15847]

Fix a bug that would cause a trap if DB_ENV->lock_id_free was passed an
invalid locker id. [#16005]

Fix a bug when thread tracking is enabled where an attempt is made to
release a mutex that is not lock. [#16011]

Fix bugs where applications using the db_env_func_map and
db_env_func_unmap run-time configuration functions could not join
existing database environments, or open multiple DB_ENV handles for a
single environment. [#15930]

Add documentation about building Berkeley DB for VxWorks 6.x.

Remove the HAVE_FINE_GRAINED_LOCK_MANAGER flag, it is obsolete in 4.7.

Fix a bug in ex_rep, add a missing break which could cause a segment fault.

Fix build warnings from 64 bit Windows build. [#16029]

Fix an alignment bug on ARM Linux. Force the assignment to use memcpy.
[#16125]

Fix a bug in the Windows specific code of ex_sequence.c, where there was an invalide
printf specifier. [#16131]

Improve the timer in ex_tpcb to use high resolution timers. [#16154]

Mention in the documentation that env->open() requires DB_THREAD to be specified when using repmgr.
[#16163]

Disable support for mmap on Windows CE. The only affect is that we do not
attempt to mmap small read only databases into the mpool. [#16169]